Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1887-07-23

visit me, even th,lghI lever visit.
ed them
Long he gazed at tileSwiftwa or
BE it so,j he said at last in u sol
emu voice.
There was splash as The plunged
into the fatal c,rrent.
The same moinenta strong young
voice was heard.
Robert Waldron had as yet bs.n
unable to tear himself away from
the vicinity Of the Dwelling Of his
beloved, had seen MIR. Gray go out
upon the point, near which he was
seated in the shadow Of rock.
Now as he made the plum ,e, the
/ youth, who had been asfew yards
]. of,sdiyelsafter him.
Ere MI Gray gone zsdeep
4 nogg be dawn 2 TO- ans der
liter Cave litcled
Him. tEo Ya 70 ne Silrs
face With bnrd Ell
.E:s;ss llas.
were carrie 1iaIt err fro NJ he I;rSd
Mr.. Gray .endeaT FED to Tale sseI
himself from Roberts grasp.
The struggle was ofshort dura
tion, Cor it is hard toreone man to
hold to-, and keep up III the water,
-an0ther who is determ,neii 10 dr0Sn
himself.
Mr.. Gray had forced himself
from the grasp Of w ,ldron, when
the latter saw the un stak;!ble fin
Of a shark cutting tne m-,on light
ed waters as it approached.
"a shark! Here it comeS!' cried
the youth, rs he ag III. clutchea ut
Mr.. Gray, 'Ay, aud there are m IRE.
L will not leave you here. If you
will not swim with me to the rock
ahead OF us, here ! will remain, aud
we willboth perish
NO, no! You must not die! 1t
would kill my chill. will so to
the rock with YOU
Thither they swan, T, aching the
rock in time to escape the sharks.
why did you stve meg cried
The old captain bitterly. Had |
died, you would have btelr able to
have my daughter. / told you, you
could make her your wife if was
dead
And for that reason do yoa sup
pose ! would stand by and see you
perish, and not 10 my best to save
youN cried Robert, SHOCKED.
There have been such cases,
said the captain, gloomiiy.
say answered Robert. My
own father WAS once left 10 perish
in that Way
Your father!' cried Mr.. Gray.
starting.
Yes. Years ago he was sea-
faring man-first officer aboard the
Sunlight, a merchant vessel. The
captain and he both loved one of
the passengers, a young lady who
was going to the ludies with her
mother. During gile one nIght
my father fell overheard. He
clutclied a rope, and the captain,
by merely stretching forth his
hand, might have saved him. But
he only stood and looked at him,
until sea washed my father from
his hold
your father! Was be your faith
ers' cried Mr.. Gray wildly. and
your name Waldron9 I knew he
was q widower, and had little
son, but his name WAS then Llv-
ingston.'
Robert drew back in surprise.
a new light seemed to break up.
Oh his mind.
4 am lie who stood by and saw
Livingston go down. continued
Gray. Yes, / anu that wretch;
and your resemblance to that
drowned man has often startled
and panied me. That was why |
would not have you we'd my
daughter while / lived, as | would
have then been doomed to SEQ your
face at times-your face so like
that OF Tie man allowed to perish,
simply because | was Jealous Of
him aud fancied that Adele: the.
fair passenger we loved, favored
Thin. But what means it7 As |
repeat bis name wills Livingston
He must then have sailed undcr a
different name from his own.
Me- said Robert. HiSfu name
was Henry Livingston Waldron.-
1t pleased HIM for a long time to
drop the 'Waldron' and go by his
second name
well, then, continued Mr.. Gray,
you behold before you the wretch
who allowed your father to perish.
Afterwards l learned from the
young lady passenger whom ! mar
ried that she had never taucled
your fatber-had preferred me-
THAT terrible neglect Of mine to.
help your imperllIed parent has
haunted me ever since and made
me miserable. After my wife's
death ! stunned society, and came,
to this lonely island, a broken
hearted man. Often do | see the
face OF my lost shipmate in my
dreams and 81
BE happy again, sir, interrupted
Robert, he still lives
sL;vesp almost screamed the old